Massachusetts Required to Pay Feds $2.1 Billion After Pandemic Fund Error

Massachusetts must give $2.1 billion to the federal government due to an apparent mix up with federal pandemic funds.

Officials said the state will be required to pay the sum over the next ten years after former Gov. Charlie Baker’s (R) administration “mistakenly” used the money to cover unemployment benefits, WHDH reported Monday.

Baker was succeeded by Gov. Maura Healey (D) in 2023 “and her deputies unveiled details of a settlement they reached with the outgoing Biden administration Friday in which the Bay State will repay most but not all of the amount it owed due to the error committed years ago,” per the outlet.

In a statement, Healey said it was “frustrating” the previous administration allowed it to happen but said officials were going to work through the problem and bring the business and labor community together, per WPRI:

https://youtu.be/79RtyBu7MOo

The WHDH article continued:

Healey announced in the summer of 2023 that her team discovered the Baker administration improperly used about $2.5 billion in federal pandemic relief funds to cover jobless benefits that should have been paid by the state.

With fees and interest, the total liability surpassed $3 billion, according to Healey’s office, who said talks with the U.S. Department of Labor reduced the amount owed to $2.1 billion over the next 10 years.

The news comes at a time when Healey is getting pressure from the Massachusetts Republican Party over her administration’s failure to address the violence and chaos in the state’s taxpayer-funded migrant shelters, Breitbart News reported January 9.

The article noted:

Republican legislators cite information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as evidence of rampant physical and sexual assaults taking place at the shelters since 2022. GOP legislators are asserting Gov. Healey failed to act until a high-profile incident forced her hand.

In regard to the billions of dollars the state must repay, those payments will begin on December 1, Healey’s administration explained. According to CBS Boston, the money will come from existing taxes.

https://www.womensystems.com/2025/01/massachusetts-required-to-pay-feds-21.html

Why not just cut off funding to Ukraine Nazi's?

>>22411917

It's not color blind it's Israel first everyone else last

Where is the EO to end the FED?

@realDonaldTrump

The banking families run everything including you if you do not take out the FED!

https://truthsocial.com/@HeavyDigger/posts/113873701919142007

Trump Is the Empire Unmasked

The U.S. presidential returnee either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the importance of keeping a polite face on the imperial machine.

During his inaugural address, the new president of the United States was refreshingly open about the fact that Washington is the hub of a continuously expanding empire which is ruled by billionaire plutocrats.

As Joe Lauria highlighted for Consortium News, President Donald Trump’s speech included references to the “manifest destiny” of America, saying that under his presidency the U.S. will consider itself a nation that “expands our territory.”

He waxed fondly about the settler-colonialist past which established the country at the expense of the people who were already living there, and vowed to take control of the Panama Canal.

Trump gave this speech to an audience where the wealthiest people on earth sat alongside his own cabinet in the best seats in the house. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were seen together in the crowd among the more official members of the incoming administration.

Israeli-American Trump megadonor Miriam Adelson, who according to Trump helped dictate U.S. policy toward Israel during his first term, was seen sitting among former President Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, and the Clintons at the inauguration.

There will reportedly be no fewer than 13 billionaires with official roles in the new Trump administration.

If you were to twist my arm and force me to say something positive about Donald Trump, this is the sort of thing I would point to. He makes the U.S. empire much more transparent and unhidden. He removes its mask and reveals the twisted face beneath it.

The U.S. isn’t suddenly ruled by billionaires now that Trump is president; it was already ruled by billionaires. The U.S. isn’t suddenly an empire bent on global domination now that Trump has been sworn in; that was already the case. But you’re not supposed to just come right out and say that.

Well, Trump comes right out and says it. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that U.S. troops are in Syria to keep the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs.

He puts much less effort into disguising the true nature of the U.S. empire than other presidents.

That’s the only reason various factions of America’s unofficial permanent government have had objections to Trump’s presidency over the years. It’s not because he presents a threat to the establishment or because he’s trying to bring down the deep state, it’s because he is viewed as a poor custodian of the empire. He either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the importance of keeping a polite face on the imperial machine.

If I were forced to say something positive about Trump, that would be it.

The thing some U.S. empire managers dislike about him is the only thing I like about him: that he makes the U.S. empire a less effective evil because of how much less hidden he keeps the inner workings of the machine. The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/21/caitlin-johnstone-trump-is-the-empire-unmasked/

>>22411975

I doubt he will pardon Christian's Miram Adelson wouldn't approve

>>22412058

>Israel is the twelve tribes.

And none of them come from Eastern Europe like they do today.

Freemasons eyeing comeback in Syria

The statement supposedly published by the organization announces their return after a five-decade ban under the Assad government

Freemasonry is returning to Syria after being banned for over 50 years, according to a statement attributed to the Presidency of the Supreme Council of the Grand Syrian Orient Lodges, which was published in several media outlets over the weekend. The group declared that the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government had created an opportunity for its re-establishment.

Assad was ousted in December 2024 after his forces lost control to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists and other opposition groups. The new authorities, mainly Islamist factions, have promised governance reforms, although political uncertainty remains.

”For the past five decades, the Free Masons’ lodges have been officially absent from the Syrian arena due to the security and political conditions imposed by the authoritarian regime,” the statement said. It accused the previous government of suppressing “any organizations or intellectual or cultural trends that might pose a threat to its secure control over Syria and its people.”

The organization described its return as part of Syria’s reconstruction, stating, “the sun of freedom shines on our homeland and our forums once again, announcing the beginning of a new era that allows the Syrian people to regain their civil and intellectual freedoms.”

It also distanced itself from politics, emphasizing, “We assure the Syrian people and the Syrian leadership that we are not a political organization and do not seek to interfere in political affairs or participate in political, union, or party work.” Instead, it said its role was to promote “the values of tolerance, brotherhood, cultural openness, education, charitable work, and the advancement of society.”

Freemasonry, a fraternal society with secretive traditions, has historically been controversial. Critics have accused it of elitism and having undue influence in political and economic affairs, while some religious groups have alleged that its members worship the devil. The organization has also been the focus of conspiracy theories, often linked to globalist agendas or covert political control.

Syria’s Ba’ath Party branded freemasonry an “illegal secret society” and banned it in 1965 during the presidency of Amin al-Hafiz. Like other Middle Eastern governments, Syria associated the fraternal organization with Western influence and Zionism, leading to its prohibition.

https://www.rt.com/news/611475-freemasons-anounce-return-syria/

Sky Mossad news Aus

by Justin Amler

Policy Analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council

Price of the Israel-Hamas hostage exchange ‘excruciatingly high’ as hatred of Jews explodes across the Western world

A sickening empty feeling accompanies the Gaza ceasefire as scores of terrorists likely to commit more atrocities against the Jewish people are freed from prison, writes Justin Amler.

There’s a scene in the movie Schindler’s List when the German businessman Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, decides, after witnessing the horrors perpetrated on the Jews, to dedicate himself fully to saving lives.

He tasks his Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, played by Ben Kingsley, with typing a list of names —“essential workers” who would labour in his factory. But this was no ordinary list.

The approximately 1,100 names on it included old men, young women, and even little children.

To be on that list was to have a chance at survival—a shield against the relentless death machine of Nazi Germany.

When Stern finishes typing the list, he holds it up and says in a quiet, powerful voice, “The list is life.”

I thought of that scene after the names of 33 Israeli hostages, set to be released in the first phase of a hostage-ceasefire deal, were made public.

Thirty-three names—old men, young women, and even little children.

Yet on this list, we don’t even know who is alive and who is dead.

Such is the cruelty of Hamas, which has spent every moment torturing the families of those they abducted, including when with just hours to go, delayed releasing the names of the first three hostages to be released for “technical reasons”.

For 15 months, this trauma has gripped Israel and the Jewish world.

It tears at every fibre of our collective soul, tormenting us by day and haunting us by night.

Knowing that our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons are languishing in terror tunnels of hell—living or dying at the whim of the most evil monsters on Earth—is maddening.

Yet to see our first three hostages, Emily, Romi and Doron, emerge from that darkness into the light illustrates what this war is truly about.

https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/price-of-the-israelhamas-hostage-exchange-is-excruciatingly-high-as-hatred-of-jews-explodes-across-the-western-world/news-story/73220dd9be6fff64073e492c93879b78